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bcci has been accused of not implementing the umpire decision review system (udrs) in recent series... and i won't be surprised if the upcoming series against south africa does not feature it as well...

why on earth will someone spend from his own pocket to see umpires like harper give one howler after another even after watching endless replays... in the name of udrs...?

I have read his views and there isn't anything about them that makes me think he's opposed to it. If anything he's called for a standardisation of the system and that's something everyone wants.

Regarding his reservations about the predictive element of Hawkeye, the ICC has done more than enough to cover that aspect by making the margin of error for decision-making much greater than the documented margin of error for the technology. Cricketers aren't the most knowledgeable people when it comes to science so I'm not surprised at their reluctance to trust something they don't understand.

The biggest indictment against the UDRS comes from the man who pushed for its implementation - the UDRS was not tested at domestic level before it was rolled into Tests.. The implication being that Test cricket is now the lab where all these new and fancy innovations will be tested.. So much for the primacy of Test cricket